Topic - Tom Dart

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said the ceremony left him nearly speechless, saying the Illinois veteran deserved military honors and a flag from the U.S. president “instead of being forgotten and left as an anonymous number somewhere.”

Military honors bestowed on Illinois veteran identified nearly a decade after death →

Dart said the jail helps organize classes overseen by university staff and other organizations to instruct inmates and detainees, before they vote, on everything from the electoral process to the rationale behind judicial elections.

Push to expand voting rights in U.S. for those held in jails →